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TITS OMAHA DAILY DEE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER' 24, 1907.
Ti ie Omaha Daily Bee
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STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.
State of Nebraska, Douglas County, s.:
Charles C. Koewater. general manager
of The Bee Publishing Company, being
duly aworn, ssys that the actual number
of full and complete copies of The Dally.
Morning, Evening and Sunday Bee printed
during the month of November, 1JC7, was
a toiiows:
1 37,000
t 37,830
38,600
4 37,830
8.. 39,680
89,690
7, ;.. 37,390
37,840
I. 37,390
Is. 38.900
11. 37,630
1, 37.73f
It 37,30
14 ,37,300
16... 3V.OU0
'it 37,430
j7 36,450
j," 38,lb0
jj" 37,430
20 ' 37,090
2i 3,970
22...... 37'3
2 37,380
24 36,100
25 37,690
J 37,090
f, 37,340
its 3,40
k 39,690
'HO 37.6K
Total
.1,183,430
Less unsold and returned copies. 10,168
Net Total 1413,861
Dally aveiage 37,108
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Mng la
call for the Chrlatmaa shop-
Leopold has been severely
lA a bath In Paris. The eld
always la hot water,
"Can. profanity be suppressed?"
asks the New York World. Not until
after the end of the storm-door sea
son. "Appendicitis has always been
classed as a luxury," says the New
York Tribune. That Is why it is being
cut out.
"After New Year, what?" asks the
Brooklyn Eaglet Congress, the "Thaw
trial, the bill collectors and numerous
other undesirable things.
According to Edgar Howard, "the
Nebraska slate democratic committee
1b dead-broke.' Respectfully referred
to William Jennings Bryan.
South American countries that watch
the fleet go by on its way to the
Pacific will have an enlarged Idea of
the power of the Monroe doctrine.
' "Last year 18,000,000. patronized
the Pullman sleepers," says the Balti
more American. "Were patronized by
the Pullman sleepers" would be more
exact
The early Christmas shopper may
have the pick of choice goods, but it
1b never too late to take a hand In the
game up to the last moment of Christ
inas eve.
One of the worst charges that have
been proven against Chancellor An
drews Is that he likes to hear himself
talk without being particular enough
as to what he says.
Chancellor Day says he has no Idea
of making a personal attack on Presl
dent Kooseveit. ine chancellor pos
sesses the discretion of the man who
sees he Is outclassed. .
A Kentucky physician declares that
sour milk Is the elixir of life and ad
vises all his patients to try it. Now
we know what they call It in Kentucky
since the state went "dry."
Boston proposes to protest to tho
cgar against his manner of running
the Russian government. The czar
must be made to realise his inability
to come up to Boston standards.
Secretary Taft declares that Japan
Is determined to preserve peace with
the United States. Some representa
tive of Japan must have seen the
Pacific-bound fleet In battle formation
Governor Haskell of Oklahoma
urges the legislature to devote Its
time to the consideration of "neces
sary laws." It would be better If all
our states had none but necessary
laws. J
The Anti-Saloon league presents Its
compliments to the Nebraska Liquor
Dealers' association with distinguished
ssnrances of satisfaction that the
liquor dealers should have taken upon
themselves to do the work of the antl
saloon men for them.
Japan proposes to cut down' its army
and navy expenses by $200,000,000 In
the next six years, Russia proposes
to Increase its navy by the expenditure
of $500,000,000 on new ships and
equipment. That will tend to put the
navlua of the two nations In about
the same class.
vzioit pacitic rnosrtniTT.
The annual report of the Union Pa
cific for the year ending June SO last,
just made public, challenge attention
to the unprecedented prosperity which
that railroad hag Ttieen enjoying. Ac
cording to this report the surplus rev
enues of the road for the year under
review, Including all such earnings,
will figure up to 140,800.000, or 20.7
per cant on all the common stock.
While some of this revenue comes
from holdings In other corporations,
the principal part of It Is from profit
of operation. What Is regarded as
most extraordinary Is the accompany
ing statement that in the last ten
years the Union Faclfic has earned
$116,352,8(4 of profits over and above
all dividend disbursements.
The people of Omaha and Nebraska
and of all the territory served by the
Union Pacific must rejoice in this mag
nificent showing of prosperity because
it, could never have been made except
on the foundation of the prosperity of
the people who use the Union Pacific
as their main artery of commerce. The
annual report of the Union Pacific
w oud Indicate that up to June 80 last,
at least, the cities, towns, villages and
agricultural and mining communities
stretching from Omaha on the east to
Puget Sound and the Golden Gate on
the west, have been enjoying a more
substantial degree of prosperity than
any other section of the country,
What our people will not be able to
understand, however, Is how Mr. Har-
lman and hl associates in the Union
aclflc management could have taken
the position they have taken as against
ihe public and their patrons while pll
itg up yearly surpluses, which last
year reached the colossal aggregate of
$10,687,883. Why they should have
fought against paying. a jnore equitable
thare of the taxes needed to support
state and local governments is beyond
comprehension. Why they should
have -complained of -inability to pro
cure money for improvements while
Investing hundreds of millions in
stocks and bonds of other and distant
lines is inexplicable. With this nest
egg against a rainy day, it Is hard "to
see why, with unsatisfied demands for
rolling stock, they should think it
necessary to close the Union Pacific
shops now for a week on the" score of
economy. It is difficult to discover
even a good excuse for not having
erected i the promised new headquar-
rs building according to the original
schedulo.
Tese puzzling problems may possi
bly be cleared up later, but in the in
terval all we can do is to admire and
wonder at the prodigious success of
the Union Pacific as a money-making
machine.
SKCRBTART TAttS MISSION IN JAVA,
The Baltimore Sun, which is about
the best answer to the oft-repeated-
query t "Wnat iaa aernociai: is tar
from being convinced that the fecent
visit of Secretary Taft to Japan was
as free from international and politi
cal significance as the statements of
the secretary would Jndlcate.- The Sun
has no testimony or facts bearing on
the case but has evidently argued itself
in.to the belief that Mr. Taft went to
Toklo as the bearer of secret messages
of great import from President Roose
velt to the Nippon emperor, probably
relating to the question of Japanese
immigration, the sale of the Philip
pines and other matters that have been
pressed to the attention of the people
of the two nations. With such a basis
for speculation, there is little limit to
the number of topics that a fertile
imagination might conjure up to ac
count for the secretary's trip to Toklo.
The Sun halts only at hinting that Mr.
Taft secured the permission of the
Japanese emperor for the American
fleet to sail for the Pacific.
Such wild speculation is one of the
penalties the public will have to pay
for Its pleasure during a presidential
campaign. Some motive must be as
signed for every action of men in the
public eye and the democratic organs
will not be alow to allege "Inter
national complications," "diplomatic
mysteries" and all sorts of mysterious
things against members of the admin
istration who are In any degree con
cerned with the management of our
relations with foreign countries. In
the case at hand, there has been no
secret of Mr. Taft's purpose in making
the foreign tour. He is not given to
gumshoe methods in public affairs
and has ' been exceedingly frank In
explaining every purpose of his trip.
He, went to Manila to attend the open
ing session of the Philippine congress,
in accord with a promise he made
when in the Philippines two years
ago. Incidentally, he had business
connected with his administration of
the affairs of the war department,
which warranted his trip to the Philip
pines at this time. Public Judgment
is rapidly settling to the quiet Con
elusion that Secretary Taft had, as he
declared, no official business In Russia
or Japan and that his visit to those
countries was purely formal and
friendly, although his Interview with
the emperor of Japan no doubt has
done much to allay the anti-American
feeling which had been excited in that
country by the outbreak of the hood
lums In San Francisco and by the
Jingo press on both sides of the
Pacific
It la always hard to keep history
straight even while passing events art
still live Issues. Here we have one of
the country weeklies tailing on the
rank and file of the republicans "to re
sent tne action or the state committee
last tall la pledging the Nebraska re
publicans to Taft." Of course, the
state committee has done nothing of
the kind. The endorsement of Secre-
tary Taft as a fitting successor to Pres
ident Roosevelt was made by the regu
larly constituted republican slate con
vention representing every county in
the state, and was incorporated In the
platform on which the nominees went
before the people and polled the larg
est republican plurality registered In
Nebraska in more than fifteen years,
with the single exception of the vote
for President Roosevelt In 1904. The
election returns did not indicate any
signs of resentment on the part of the
rank and file.
rV8TPOSltlO THt DICK LAW,
Friends of the state militia through
out the country will be disappointed
that Senator Dick of Ohio, the author
of the national law for the organiza
tion and maintenance of state forces,
has found it necessary to offer a bill
In the present congress postponing
Its operation for two years. The orig
inal law was to have become effective
on January 21, 1908, but its uniform
application at that date has been found
impossible and the postponement bill
Is the result of a conference between
Senator Dick and the officials of the
War department who have been giving
ppecial attention to this feature of the
service.
The original Dick law provided for
the extension of federal aid to the
national guard in the different Btates
as those organizations were brought
to conform with the standards of the
regular army. The expectation held
by officials of the War department at
the time' of its passage have not been
fully realized, for some of the states
have made no earnest- effort to meet
the requirements, while in others legal
objections and state constitutional ob
stacles have been encountered that
will require time for adjustment. As
&n illustration of tlw complications,
New Vct'K. guardsmen Lai a standard
of 103 men to the company, while
the regular army standard is 68. Com
pliance with the Dick law would com
pel a material reduction of the numeri
cal strength of the New York National
Guard, whose officials refuse to sanc
tion It. Compliance would also reduce
the numerical strength of the New
York militia' below the requirement
of the state constitution.
While New York has more than its
quota,- in some states the number is
below the federal requirements and
all efforts to encourage enlistment have
been unproductive. Delaware has less
than 400 guardsmen and Montana
about an equal number. North Dakota
has 619, Washington about 700, Ver
mont 692, Wyoming 200 and Nevada
none. The middle western states, in
cluding Iowa, Nebraska, Indiana, Illi
nois, Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan,
have some 25,000 men in regularly
organized regiments ready to share the
benefits of the law's operation. In
the south and in some western states
the prospective bonus offered by the
government for service in the militia,
has not produced satisfactory results.
The total strength of the national
guard in the forty-six states is about
110,000 officers and men, of whom the
War department estimates only 80,000
available for active duty.
OVR GROWING SOUTH KRN TRADE.
The reports of the Department of
Commerce and Labor on our foreign
trade for the nine months of the
calendar year, In addition to showing
that all previous records have been
broken, both as to volume and value
of exports and imports, direct atten
tion to the rapid development and
growth of our commerce with coun
tries to the south. Since the days of
Mr. Blaine's administration of the
State department, the efforts to win
the trade of South America' from
Europe have been persistent, but only
within the last few years have ap
preciable results been obtained. While
these are yet far from satisfactory,
as our imports from South America
still exceed our exports by some $52,-
000,000 a year, the volume of the.
export trade has grown to such dimen
sions as to offer the greatest encour
agement for the future.
For the nine months -of the year
our exports to Central America ag
gregated $21,888,898, as compared
with $18,636,631 for the same period
in 1906, and the exports to South
America for the same period amounted
to $63,004,833, a gain of $7,000,000
over the nine montns' record or last
year. During the same period the
imports from Central America were
$13,875,883, a gain of $2,000,000, and
the imports from South America were
$116,033,331; a gain of $16,000,000.
While these results show a balance
of trade in favor of both South and
Central America against the United
States, the gain In exports shows that
the merchants of this country are
becoming familiar with business meth
ods In the south countries and are
preparing to get their share of a profit
able and growing business that has
long been denied them. The bulk of
this trade has been going to Europe
largely because of the special efforts
made In both Germany and Great
Britain to train consular and business
agents in the methods of the southern
continent.
American exports to South and
Central America consist largely of
farm machinery, shoes and other
manufactured articles. The demand
for these products is growing rapidly,
as the government or nearly every
South American country Is spending
vast amounts of money on public lm
provements and making unusual effort
to develop Its natural resources. The
American manufacturers are In post
tlon to profit largely by this develop
ment and the authorities at Washing
ton are Justified In the special effort
they are making to promote better
trade relations with the South and
Central American countries.
Our democratic congressman has al
ready discovered after a brief re-entry
Into the halls of legislation at Wash
ington that "two years have made
some remarkable changes in govern
mental affairs at the capital." It
should be added that another two
years will make still more remarkable
changes In governmental affairs at the
capital, Including in atl probability an
other change In the congressional rep
resentative from this district
The only democratic congressman
from Nebraska Is sure .his postal sav
ings bank bill would be passed by the
house were it not for stumbling
block in the person of "Uncle" Joe
Cannon. Recipe for removing the
stumbling block: . Send 'a republican
to congress from this district.
Omaha Is said to have a chance to
get the next year's meeting of the
State Teachers' association, if it will
only go after it in the right way. The
hint ought to be enough to start the
machinery In motion for a pressing in
vitation to the teachers so attractive
that they cannot resist it
It is understood that the fleet will
make a friendly call at Venzuelan
ports. For the moment we have for
gotten how much' money Venezuela
owes on claims that have been a-warded
in favor of citizens of this country.
It is stated that Mr. Bryan is plan
ning extensive repairs and Improve
ments to his home at Falrview. Seems
like going to unnecessary expense if
he really thinks he Is about to move
to Washington.
A traveler reports that all the big
game has disappeared from the wilds
of Africa. The report that the presi
dent Is planning a hunting trip after
his retirement from office must have
got there first.
Another advantage of being a con
gressman is that you can have a fight
on the floor of tho house and have it
referred to as "defending your honor"
Instead oi being arrested for disorderly
conduct
Theodore Shonts has refused to buy
the ruined castles of his daughter's
bankrupt duke. Papa Shonts evidently
thinks he paid enough for something
he didn't want when he bought the
duke. J " I '
A brother of , Charles Schwab is
going to divorce his wife. In order to
marry an actress: It is perhaps un
necessary to state that this Mr.
Schwab also halls from Pittsburg.
The ancient origin of Sabbath ob
servance laws Is unquestioned, and
neither is the long-established practice
of interpreting them liberally for pur
poses of enforcement.
A Long and Weary Way.
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Denver seems a long way off to
the
last
eastern democrat who went to the
national convention on a pass.
Tea, and Then Some.
Toledo Blade.
After all, money talks.
That "cross of sold" Is not so muoh of a
bug-bear to the Bryanltes as It was a tew
years ago. "-'
Emphasis on the Finish,
Waahlngton Post
Mr. Roosevelt first anti-third term
statement contained about 200 words; his
second contained eleven. The next one
will no doubt read simply "Forget it."
Mammon Oct a Frost.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Senator Jeff Davis of Arkansas has vocif
erously announced that he will never eat
from the hands of Mammon. We hope
Mammon will go back now and toss his
sandwich into the aewer.
SnperSaons Disclaimer.
Bt. Louis Times.
There does not seem to be any crying
demand for a staement from Governor
Magoon of Cuba that he is not a candi
date for the presidency of the United
Btates. However, we will accept his dis
claimer in a spirit of amity.
Th Limit Under the Lid.
Baltimore American.
Th lid Is being lifted In New York to
certain extent entertainments may be
given on Sunday, provided they are given
In such a manner as not to disturb th
publlo peace or amount to a serious Inter
ruption. A broad translation of this may
be that th audience Is not to throw things
at the actors.
WHO'LL FAY THE! PITER?
Proposed Government Flnaaclnsr of
Political Canipalarn.
Philadelphia Telegraph.
His bitterest enemy will not charge Presi
dent Roosevelt with a paucity of Ideas or
with any fear of expressing them. No ex
ecutive has dedicated himself more com
pletely to th herculean labor of solving the
political and economic problems of his gov
ernment than ha, and It is no doubt to
this Incessant deslr to accomplish a bet
terment along all th lines of our national
activities that w owe the suggestion in
his annual message that the government
should finance th leading political parties.
To the hasty mind this may appear utterly
Quixotic, but to the reasoning mind, Im
practicable as It may seem at this moment,
It Is a biasing of th wsy to Pasteurised
political conditions, when money will
eeas aa a corrupting agency, and voter
be no longer irlvo Ilk sheep to th
shambles. Th j undent puts forth the
Idea tentatively, a o -nettling to be hoped
for, and, therefore, something to b born
studiously In mind, .it th first blush th
thougt t I'" Utoplaa, and th Imagination
pictures p-jlillane of high and low degree
making common spoil of th publlo funds,
and the general press filled with cartoons
of th "Universal Pork Barrel'' and th
"National Dough Bag." But th president's
schema, w tak It, la a regulatory on by
which th federal and state governmeoti
might not only bring election expenses to
th lowest possible minimum, but actually
prohibit contributions of money by In
terests expecting to profit through party
success. His Idea may never materialise,
and yet It Is germinal to clean politics.
CROP VALUES ARE HIGHER
Price Nearly One-Third More This
Year Than Last.
YIELD IS HOT AS MUCH A3 IN 1908
Farm Land Has Increased la Valaa
Tito Hundred and Fitly Million
Dollars, According; to Fed
eral Report.
Final estimates of the crop reporting
board. Department of Agriculture, have
been received at th Omaha Groin ex
change and comparisons made by officers
of the exchange with the report of last
year show that while the production Is
smaller the values are almost 3.14 per
cent greater, while farm values have In
creased at a rat almost beyond belief in
the face of the smaller yield.
There is a smaller production of all the
commercial grains from corn to rye, but
where corn was worth 39 cents per bushel
last year, the average price Is 61. T cents
this year; winter wheat, which brought 6S
cents last year, Is quoted ' at 88. J cents;
spring wheat of last year at 03 cents and
this year at 60 cents; oats at 31.7 cents last
year and 41.3 cents in 1907; barley at 41. t
cents last year and 66.6 cents is th av
erage for the current year; rye, which sold
for 68.9 cents last year, Is worth 73.1 cents
per bushel during the crop moving months
of 1W.
Tho acreage of corn was larger by over
3,000,000 acres; the winter and spring wheat
acreage smaller; the acreage of oats, bar
ley and rye smaller than last year.
The total Increase in the value of farm
lands amounts to almost t-50 Ooo.oOO.
Comparison la Tables.
Comparative table follows:
Production: 1907 Bu.
1006 Bu.
2.927 41i uO0
4i0.4J.R9
242,37J,!WS
tM, 4-13, t.(IO
178,910,000
33,3. i 00
19"6.
96.737,000
29. 599,000
17,7',0O0
30,9r.S,0OO
,2.H3,0OO
2,001,000
1906.
l,166.y.flno
8W.4a6.000
163,87,eiX
8O4.292.0fO
74. 235.0" X)
19,671,000
Corn 2,&Ui,32O,iO0
Winter wheat t UrtM-U IK!
Spring wheat 214.645,000
Oats 761. 4X1.000
Parley 163 .317.WW
liye 31,66ti,0U0
Acreage: ISOT.
Corn 99, 9Sl ,000
winter wheat H8.132.00
Spring wheat 17,079,O0
Oats 81.837.000
Parley 6, 4X8.O00
Kye 1,0,000
Increase of farm values:
1907.
Corn lands $1,840,446,000
Winter wheat lands 3l.il6,0n0
Spring wr-iat lands.. 193,23),CX)
Oats lands 3H4.4M.000
Parley lands 102 OWf.OOO
Rye lands 23.068,000
While the oats of Iowa, Nebraska and
South Dakota are reported to be unusually
light for the present year, the average
wetsrht of the oats of the United States.
is 29.4 pounds per hushel or tnoVe than a
pound above the average.' The average
weight of soring wheat is shown to be 66.1
poundH and winter wheat weighs 68.9
pounds to the bushel.
TUKEY RAPS POSTAL SAVINGS
Real Estate Man Deprecate the En
actment of a Snch a
Law.
"Seventeen million dollars will bo with
drawn from the Omaha banks if the postal
savings bank system is established,, ac
cording to A. P. Tukey, who will Introduce
resolutions at the next meeting of the
Omaha Real Estate exchange, opposing th
proposed legislation for the postal banks.
"I qm for Omaha first," said Mr. Tukey,
"and at present 17,000,000 is deposited by
Omahans In the savings and loan associ
ations of th city, all of whlcb is now
loaned on Omaha homes. More than 3.600
men of moderate means have erected homes
within the past two years because it was
possible to obtain the savings of others
at reasonable Ipterest, with which t,o build
the homes.
"The claim Is mad that the people
favor the postal savings banks almost
unanimously. Conceding that this Is true,
we must conclude that many who have
the 87,000,000 on deposit in th savings and
loan associations, will withdraw their
money and place it in tr.e postal savings
banks. They will at least do so for a time
and the amount now loaned on homes of
Omaha would be transferred to the postal
savings banks and the associations would
be put out of business.
"Now it Is well known that the govern
ment will not loan 1 cent of money on any
home In Omaha and (those building will
have to seek money elsewhere. Where
they will get the money I do not know.
They cannot secure private money. Sup
pose, for Instance, that one-half of the 87,
000,000 Is withdrawn. It would cripple local
institutions Deyona recovery, l don t see
Why the Real Estate exchange or any
other local organisation desires to cripple
local Industry and jeopardise th business
of those who have built ,up the banks and
financial organisations, which have fostered
home buildings.
"I question whether half a docen mem
bers of the exchange would be -willing to
go on record as favoring the withdrawal of
the $7,000,000 Invested In Omaha homes and
which la constantly .changing hands and
helping others to build.
"Then the savings deposits In th national
banks of Omaha amount to 810,000,000. This
Is th money of poor men who are draw
lng 2Vs to 8 per cent Interest on certificates
of deposit. It Is claimed this money will
be returned to the local banks by the gov
ernment, but experience has shown it
otherwise. The money from the sale of all
government bonds and warrants nearly al
ways finds Its way to New York In some
way or another and is not distributed over
the country."
Mr. Tukey said he would be opposed to
taking a postal card vote of Omaha, as
was taken In Lincoln, as the people would
nearly all favor th postal savings bank
system, because they would not under
stand the results which they would feel
soon enough.
"In other countries It Is different The
United Kingdom Is not building homes
on borrowed money," he said. "The land
Is held as estates and when a home Is to
be erected th landlord builds It and rents
It. There is no comparison with the grow
ing and developing west, where hundreds of
homes are being erected In Omaha every
year by th men who expect to live In them
and who own th land on which they
stand."
Feeling of th real estate men Is running
high over the debates before the exchange
on the subject of the postal savings banks,
and' the next meeting promises to be t
warm one. Mr. Tukey points to th Dre-
nt quiet spell In real estate circles as
due to th fact that th building and loan
associations ar unable to mak loans and
a good sample of the stagnation la th real
estate business Is sure to follow th de
positing cf money In th postal savings
banks.
LIVE STOCK CARS DELAYED
Rock Island Railroad Eater Pleas
of Galltr Before Jad-
Land Is.
NEW YORK, Deo. 88.-Pleas of guilty
were made today by th Rock Island
Railroad company In thirty-four cases
charging violation of the law prohibiting
th confinement f live stock In cars
longer than twenty-four hours. Judge
Landls, In the United States 'district court,
before whom the pleas war entered, de
ferred sentence to allow the railroads to
show causes for th delays.
TOYSHalf Price
Just on more day to make your selection,
and we intend to make this the ijreatest day of
all.
Every Toy in our immense stock thnt lias
been in any way soiled or damaged by handling, ,
haa been sent to the Basement, where we close it
out at HALF PRICE. This includes dolls, ani
mals and almost 'every kind of Toy. Many of
these are not injured in any way except for the
broken boxes they are in. Don't miss seeing
them Tuesday. They are splendid bargains,every
one of them HALF PRICE. ,
This general clearing up leaves the Main
floor an ideal Toy department, crowded as it is
'with all that is prettiest and best in toydom. Each
and every article is perfect, bright and new. You
can make as good selection here Tuesday as on
our opening day. Shopping is a pleasure here.
OPEN EVENINGS
Orchard & Wilhelm
im-lfe'lS South Sixteenth
PERSONAL NOTES.
John Sharp Williams does his best Hunt
ing when the speaker acts as referee.
Harden and Stocssel. both on tr'ol for
heroism, may reflect that a monument to
Zola la soon to be unveiled.
Detroit's social Hat has been lopped from
to 200, and the 800 outs seem to be tak
ing their amputation seriously.
Chicago's Board of Trade has expelled a
member either for"- gambling or for his
negligence In getting caught at it.
The latest Washington conundrum: Why
Is the house like Bt. Louis 7 Because It is
where Mississippi and Missouri come to
gether. The "Klondike King" has appeared In
New York with 600 81.000 bills in his pocket.
It will b Interesting to observe how many
of these he will be permitted to carry away.
Secretary Cortelyou will be invited to de
liver the Dodge lectures at Yale. Benor
Ruy Barbosa of Brazil, who was to have
delivered them, cables that he is too 111 to
undertake the task, following his arduous
duties In connection with Tho Hague con
ference.
A Chicago woman described as an "au
thoress, club woman, society leader, slum
worker and general "philanthropist" ad
dressed a number of the young women' of
that city the other day. giving them,
among other things, this sage advice:
"Don't wear fancy waists with flxzles and
pooh-poohs." And yet they say the vocabu
lary of golf la hardl
One of the wealthiest men In the state
of Wyoming, bel les being 4ts governor, is
Bryant Butler brooks. As a. young man
be knocked about working as a farm hand
and cowpuncher and putting In a winter
as a trapper and hunter In Wyoming. In
the spring of that year he brought the
furs to Chicago. Then he went back to
Wyoming and settled on government land
under the homestead act. Now he lives
on a ranch of 100,000 acres, where he has
80,000 sheep, thousands of hornod cattle
and several hundred horses.
Mr. Frederick 'Dent Grant, Mrs. Cler-
ence Burns, president of the Little Mothers'
Aid association; Mrs. William Jennings
Bryan, and Miss Mary McDowell, the Chi
cago settlement worker, are co-operating
In a plan to bring the 180,000 homeless chil
dren of this country to the attention ot
the 2,000,000 childless homes that are said to
exist Short histories and photographs ot
the children who are candidates for adop
tion will be published In a popular maga-
Eine and the women who are Interesting
themselves in the work believe that homes
will be found for most ot th homeless lit
tle) ones.
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Too Risky
would bt wif for you to a ' -iu uiui
td .ri....r.r,i,,i,ri,n,, exactly what you have done. f.f'iS?;:
Browning, Ming & Co
CLOTHIIMO, FURNISHINGS and HATS
LAST MINUTES
GREAT advantage in doing your
holiday shopping here is in knowing
what you want in Men's and Boys'
Clothing or Furnishings'is ready to
wear at once. You can get here on
Christmas eve what a tailor would
take two week to make and get it better
here. If you don't know the size buy one
of our Merchandise Orders. 1
15th and Douglas
Strts
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"WITHOUT PAINO, NO GAINS." WITHOUT
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Ho Comfort, Best Wyoming
VICTOR WHITE COAL
UNTIL CHRISTMAS.
spick nKFonrc the: feast.
"Mamma, Santa Claua Isn't married, Is
he?"
"I doa't know. Why do yoi think he
Inn t, dear?"
" 'Cause if he was his wife wouldn't let
him May out that way at night." Chicago
Record-Herald.
The husband of the pretry actress had
shot at her press agent.
"Now.' see here,' exclaimed the agent
with some impatience; "you oughtn't to bn
no careless. Next time don't stund so
close. Those blank cartrldKes scorch a
man at six feet." Philadelphia Ledger.
"Say, paw," queried little Tommy Tod
dles, who had picked up a few raetnir
terms on tho street, "what Is the 'home
stretch'?"
"Trying to make both ends meet, my
son," replied Toddles, sr., who was audit
In the month's household bills. Chicago
News.
Wife Do you like those beautiful sus
penders 1 embroidered for you, dear?
Hubby Yes, darlliiK they i don't show
when I am dressed. Cleveland Leader.
Tommy I dreamed last night I got a pair
o' new skates for Chrls'mas.
Younger Brother Huh! That won't do
you any good, i wrote to old Santa Claua
for 'em week 'fore last, plague take yuhl
Chicago Tribune.
"That waa an unlucky thing that Peck,
the engineer, done," said the brakeman.
"They gave him one o' them new engines
yesterday and he named It after his wife.
"How was that unlucky?" asked the
Why, the blamed thing blew him up this
morning." Philadelphia Frss.
IF I WKH13 SANTA CLAL'S.
Detroit Free Press.
If I were Santa CiauS, I'd pass
..The grown-up men and women by;
fd search for every little lass
And every little boy, that I .
Could vlBlt In a single night;
Beside their cots I'd gayly pause;
The little ones I would delight,
I'd be a children's Santa Claus.
If I were Eanta Claus, I'd not
Waste time on grown-up folks at all;
But I would linger by each cot
Where slept a faithful youngster small.
I'd look for little tear-stained, cheeks, .
And In each face I'd slyly peer;
And, when the light of morning streaks,
I'd see they tasted Christmas cheer.
If I were Santa Claus, I'd go
Where children never know the Joys
St. Nick is fabled to bestow.
I'd visit all the girls and boys
That poverty is pulling down
The thin, pale children, wan and 111;
I'd search for them throughout the town,
Their stockings I would And.
If I were Santa Claus, I'd see
That not a little child should wake
To And he was forgot by me;
No tiny heart I'd ever break.
Such plums and sugar canes I'd leave,
Such wonderfully painted toys,
That not one baby heart should grieve.
I'd Santa for the girls am) boys.
bard chill, pain through the cheat, difficult
breathing." I( this should be your experience,
send for your doctor! If may be pneumonia i
To doctor yourself would be too risky. If your
15th and Douglas
Streets
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